Saturday, May 04, 2013 4:58:46 PMI dropped 15Kg by paying a bit of attention to the nutrition information on labels. I used to eat biscuits by the pack and never even bothered looking at what's in them (mostly flour stuck together with fat, apparently). Or "healthy" fruit snack bars...usually more sugar in those than in chocolate.

Saturday, May 04, 2013 4:44:54 PMIt used to be said that celery was the only NEGATIVE calorie food; it took more to digest it than it provided you in the eating. I guess that's changed...?

What changed was that some companies were fined for peddling "negative calories food" lies. There's no such thing and never has been. Urban myth at best, dangerous lies for profit at worst. You get a net gain of calories from eating anything else that humans can digest. Celery would fill you up and thus stop you eating stuff with a higher net calorie gain, but it does have a net calorie gain.

The only ingestible thing that causes a net calory loss, as far as I know, is cold zero-calorie liquid (your body has to use energy to heat the liquid to body temperature), but drinking enough of it to lose more than a few grams of weight would kill you.

Friday, May 03, 2013 7:09:26 PM Screw calories. I eat low cal all week so I can eat whatever I want on weekends. But you can have some delicious low cal food. Not that store bought rice-cake crap. Real food. And good size portions to boot.

This weekend is apple pie and home made French dips with my personal au jus recipe. {the secret is beer} But then on Monday I'll make a pinto beans and a big pot of split pea soup {screw ham, put some bacon in there!}. With those things and salad {home made dressing} I'll do okay calorie wise. Which makes room for beer.

Friday, May 03, 2013 7:03:35 AMAs much as I love junk food...Notice how much MORE food 200 calories of broccoli, corn, kiwis etc..Is compared to 200 calories of junk? The joke about "America this is why you're fat" is because of WHAT people eat, more than HOW MUCH they eat.

Friday, May 03, 2013 2:28:42 AMLikeIGiveASh: 'What 200 Calories Looks Like [Pic]. Put these all together and then you might have a proper meal!' 7400 Calories. 3 meals a day = 22200 Calories. This why you are fat America!

Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:16:40 PM @ myK - garlic is a given, like air, it's in everything except cake. Love cayenne but not this recipe, black pepper. No cilantro, Bay leaves! That's the ticket. I do throw in a few dashes of tobacco when it's done cooking and I like a splash of malt vinegar in my bowl.